This particular scout called it “a process.”
As in one “that transforms young men into warriors … a distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.”
Well, he wasn’t exactly a scout describing T.J. Watt. The “scout” was former Navy SEAL Dick Couch writing in his 2003 book, “The Warrior Elite.”
Couch specifically was explaining the 27 weeks of torturous military training that produced SEALS such as Adam Brown, the subject of another book, “Fearless.”
Brown died heroically in 2010 in Komar Province, Afghanistan, after charging an enemy compound to draw fire away from pinned-down comrades.
So, back to T.J. No, he’s not Adam Brown, nor is football war. But the afore-mentioned “scouting report” couldn’t help but bring Watt to mind. There isn’t an
